Kruger National Park

Kruger is truly everything it's cracked up to be. It’s a huge National Park where all the animals are free to run and just live and sometimes eat each other. The park is about the size of Rhode Island. The abundance of wildlife is unbelievable and their lack of fear of vehicles makes sightings incredible.

I signed up for a safari the day I flew to SA. I picked the cheapest safari I could fine and it turned out to be a great one. We camped, which is just fine with me and had tons of time in an open air safari truck.

Our group got lucky. The first animal we saw was a leopard…and so was the second! A mother and her adolescent son. 

Over the 4 days of the safari we saw everything. The big 5 – elephant, leopard, buffalo, rhino, and lion. Rare animals like cheetahs, wild dogs, hyenas, the endangered southern ground-hornbill. Plus all the usuals like giraffe, jackals, wildebeests, mongoose, impala, kudu, nyala, bushbuck, waterbuck, steenbok, warthog, zebra, hippo, baboon, vervet monkey, scrub hare, cormorants, leopard tortoise, hinged terrapin, chameleon, water monitor, nile crocodile, ducks, geese, herons, ostrich, storks, kori bustard (I think that’s what the big bird was), guineafowl, fish eagle, vulture, tawny eagle, 2 different owls, grey go-away-bird, southern carmine bee-eater, woodland kingfisher, yellow-billed hornbill, European roller, starlings, African paradise-flycatcher, doves, and more!

As you can imagine, I have been in heaven!